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i read books (almost exclusively) that are recommended to me or that i hear are good. i think this fashion accessory thing might be true of some people but isn't really some litmus test you can use.

yeah but based on what you talk about you don't read fashionable books. like, game of thrones is popular but nobody reads it to look cool to girls.

it's just how things are, man. people who are book lovers are different from people who aren't - just by necessity, because their lifestyle and decor will reflect their passion. it's like if gaming were really fashionable but people treated it like work, and you went into someone's house and the 360 was just sitting on a coffee table thirty feet away from the tv, not plugged in or anything - you probably would be skeptical if that homeowner was like "yeah I'm totally a gamer. I like the halocraft."

i don't really read fashionable books, i read maybe 2 or 3 books a year, and i talk about pretty much all of 'em here

i also don't consider myself especially intelligent

i can see being a dude who is smart and who doesn't read much and going "ok, let me do some research and see what books are really good. i'll read those", and buying them

at least if he's reading them

my thing is, people actually buy them just to keep around on their shelves and not read. people would come into the bookstore and want to buy books by the foot. "yeah, I've got three, four feet on the mantel. Whaddaya think would look good up there?"

I was like argh argh argh

:rolleyes:

My mum needs to get rid of some books though, storage has become a problem, and then there's the insects.

I like to keep it in
the refrigerator.
(Mike speaking through distortion)
Keeps the powder dry, and
the action quicker.
(All)
Let me be your American Gladitor.
(Mike speaking)
Find enclosed an
adhesive NRA sticker.
(Mike speaking)
A letter to you from where
I've been holed up
in this bucolic, agrarian compound.
One step ahead
(rest)
just ahead
(Mike speaking)
of the government bloodhound.
The gas is off, it's a
national showdown.
(All)
Sure wish that I could visit you,
my sweet betrothed.
(Mike speaking)
In a couple of days
we'll all be free,
or we'll be dead.
(Jian)
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
(All)
Fencing off this little
piece of heaven.
(Mike speaking)
Cross the line and
you're electricuted.
(All)
Polishing up my AK47.
(Mike speaking)
It's a constitutional
right, can't be refuted.
(Mike speaking)
Now they've got us on TV,
and making us look stupid.
Shot of me flippin' my lid,
at that mutt reporter,
a classic case of race dilution
(All)
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Houston,
(Mike speaking)
What is the problem?
(All)
I'm fighting for you, and
a blue-eyed Jesus.
(Mike speaking)
America first,
the rest get the pieces.
(All)
Na Na Na Na.
(All)
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
Fighting for your honor,
like would any Afrikaaner.
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
Our love is so strong
(?our numbers are
strong?), and it won't
be long
till I can tell you,
Tricia, that we won.
You'll be ecstatic, just
like that night
you told me up in the attic.
That was your wish again,
to be back in ?a? purified Michigan
down on...! down on...!
(Mike speaking)
..the farm.
(moog solo)
(Mike speaking)
Well, that's my wish again,
to be back in Michigan.
(All)
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
(Well, that's my wish
again, to be back in
Michigan)
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
I hope you like the double barrel,
I think it goes with your apparel.
Happy Birthday, Tricia,
(Well, that's my wish
again, to be back in
Michigan)
I'm in the Michigan Militia.
(All)
I like to keep it in
the refrigerator.

Also: Some books are for show, like the outdated hardcover atlas on my coffee table, or my mum's old leatherbound Portuguese-language editions of Poe and Bronte and Cervantes. Other books are for reading, like the Gibson novels on my bookshelf or the paperback legal thrillers that populate my mum's bedside table or the shelves of Star Wars and Warhammer 40K novels that my brother has.

As an aficionado I understand buying books for show in the aesthetic sense. Sometimes I buy ones I have no idea about just because they are in gorgeous suede leather or have a Chip Kidd cover

but you and your family's shelves still say something authentic about you, Elldren. You have some sexy editions of classics you may never read and maybe some other beat up paperbacks that you love to death. that stuff tells a tale of you as people, it doesn't just say "well these go nice with my this american life CDs."

yeah there are certain areas where if you stop at a red light people will just shamble casually into the street towards your car, by the bunch

it's like a zombie movie

i didn't know this was a thing that happened until i was outside scarborough with my brother

he's driving and we stop at a light and there's just two grubby homeless dudes who start walking towards our car

i am thinking what the hell is this they don't look like squeegee kids

and my brother opens the door and goes nuclear on them, just screaming and getting all puffed up and shit like he's going to rip their heads off through their assholes

they fuck off like a couple of raccoons you catch diggin' through your trash

gets back in the car and i am like "jake what the fuck was that dude, i didn't wanna get in a fight with some fuckin' hobos tonight what is wrong with you"

and he's like "bro they were going to fucking jack us, don't you know shit about anything, people who just walk towards your car like that, especially dirty shitstains like that, they're going to fucking jack you"

i was like "that is bullshit" and dropped the subject

then did some asking around later and found out that this is a thing that happens and that my brother's behavior, while possibly really stupid, probably saved us from having to deal with two bandits

Pony on August 2010

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My boss there was kind of an awful person, this horrible right-wing pseudointellectual who always tried to convince me of the error of my ways, but I did appreciate his somewhat withering contempt as he dealt with these people.

yeah there are certain areas where if you stop at a red light people will just shamble casually into the street towards your car, by the bunch

it's like a zombie movie

i didn't know this was a thing that happened until i was outside scarborough with my brother

he's driving and we stop at a light and there's just two grubby homeless dudes who start walking towards our car

i am thinking what the hell is this they don't look like squeegee kids

and my brother opens the door and goes nuclear on them, just screaming and getting all puffed up and shit like he's going to rip their heads off through their assholes

they fuck off like a couple of raccoons you catch diggin' through your trash

gets back in the car and i am like "jake what the fuck was that dude, i didn't wanna get in a fight with some fuckin' hobos tonight what is wrong with you"

and he's like "bro they were going to fucking jack us, don't you know shit about anything, people who just walk towards your car like that, especially dirty shitstains like that, they're going to fucking jack you"

i was like "that is bullshit" and dropped the subject

then did some asking around later and found out that this is a thing that happens and that my brother's behavior, while possibly really stupid, probably saved us from having to deal with two bandits

I am definitely someone who grants value to a shelf of media. beyond the obvious economic value and actually have the movies, I mean what it says about a person, or can say.

Exactly, yeah. I think they as objects are like maps of a life. I look at my shelves of books and dvds and think of who I was with when I watched something, or a great vacation where I found some book I'd been wanting for years, or whatever.

Another fun fact about my mum's house: She doesn't have a coffee table book, she has a pile of books on the coffee table. She has the official guidebooks to like half the major galleries in Europe sitting in a mildly disheveled pile in the middle of the living room.

It is the greatest thing, because people will actually look through them.

Another fun fact about my mum's house: She doesn't have a coffee table book, she has a pile of books on the coffee table. She has the official guidebooks to like half the major galleries in Europe sitting in a mildly disheveled pile in the middle of the living room.

It is the greatest thing, because people will actually look through them.

Did you ever tell the dude that being a drug dealer is probably not the best thing, and did it end in fisticuffs?

i have told him many, many times that being a drug dealer is not a smart life choice

he's not even good at it

he's constantly in the red because he smokes too much of his own product and shares too much shit with his friends and cheap brother who won't buy his own pot

but when i bring this up to him he's like "listen construction is really slow right now and we both don't want me to go into collecting so this is what i do, okay, it's just till i get my mason's apprenticeship"

he got accepted into the mason's union a week ago, let's see if the dealin' stops

of course even if it does it won't change the fact that he lives with two other dealers, one of which works in a headshop

so he'll still be in that environment even if he doesn't do it himself

That reminds me, a friend of mine who is into jiu jitsu enjoys disrespecting krav maga on the grounds that proper martial arts have rules and also that they dont like to steal moves from other disciplines. And also about some claim that you can deal with multiple attackers being bogus, but that may have been a strawman.

I used to know a fairly big time drug dealer, but he had to quit because the stress was giving him among other physical ailments, severe high blood pressure or something. He is now an upstanding member of the community